maybe i should build something like omarchy that isn't, you know, omarchy
Replying to @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
a lot of people do not understand what omarchy actually *is* and why it is making progress where traditional distributions have failed.
they focus on the fact that omarchy *is* a vanity distro, that it is basically a collection of configuration files and some shell scripts gluing them together.
and omarchy is that.
but omarchy is also marketing and devrel, and a consolidation of the linux experience into a product format.
in fact, that is most of what omarchy actually *is*.
building a technical community that understands & executes on these things would be the goal of what i propose building
Replying to @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
in essence omarchy is a mechanism to take linux and turn it into a product, in the same way that macOS takes darwin and turns it into a product.
traditional linux distributions, by comparison, aren't defined products, they are work output from technical communities, and the design of them is approached from that philosophy.
Replying to @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
somebody has already suggested that we should build this on Nix or whatever.
and like, you're just not getting the point.
the package management? flatpak.
Replying to @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
managing software needs to be obvious. package managers ain't it.
on mac, you install apps from either the app store or by dragging them to the applications folder.
Replying to @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
@ariadne Mint seems to be close to this, just not really aimed at "hackers".
I have it on my laptop and I don't think I ever installed anything via the command line or editing config files. There's an application manager (don't know the exact English name as the German localization is good enough for me) that works pretty much like an app store and deals with the actual package manager in the background.
I have it on my laptop and I don't think I ever installed anything via the command line or editing config files. There's an application manager (don't know the exact English name as the German localization is good enough for me) that works pretty much like an app store and deals with the actual package manager in the background.
Replying to @LunaDragofelis@void.lgbt
@LunaDragofelis mint is nothing like what i am thinking about building
Replying to @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
@ariadne What are the differences between Mint and what you have in mind? I'm not trying to make you justity yourself - I'm just trying to understand better what you actually mean.
Replying to @LunaDragofelis@void.lgbt
@LunaDragofelis what i am proposing is building just enough of a distro to bootstrap access to flathub
Replying to @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
@ariadne I see, that definitely is something that might have value.